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rian Society of Worcester, prepared, by special request of 

 the Institution, a memoir which formed a part of the seventh 

 volume of the " Contributions." This was a thorough and 

 able article with a bibliographical character, summarizing 

 the opinions of early writers on American antiquities, and 

 the existing knowledge of aboriginal monuments east of the 

 Rocky Mountains. The great labor performed by Haven in 

 gathering material from publications which were rare and 

 inaccessible did much to correlate accumulated observations, 

 and led to a hope, carried out forty years later, of publishing 

 a complete archaeological map of all the mounds east of the 

 Rocky Mountains. For twelve years subsequent to Doctor 

 Haven's memoir, however, nothing appears in the " Contribu- 

 tions " respecting the antiquities of the middle region of the 

 United States, save a short communication by Whittlesey on 

 "Ancient Mining on the Shores of Lake Superior." In 1872 

 Doctor Joseph Jones was aided by a small appropriation, and 

 pursued investigations with ardor and success. The refer- 

 ences to his work in the Reports from 1872 to 1876 show the 

 wide range of studies pursued by him in historical and biblio- 

 graphical directions. His memoir forms a volume of one 

 hundred and eighty-one quarto pages, with many woodcuts, 

 and a very full index by Professor O. T. Mason. This work, 

 entitled "Antiquities of Tennessee," (1876) contains de- 

 scriptions of burial caves and mode of burial, mounds, earth- 

 works, forts, and relics, closing with general conclusions. 



The exploration of the mounds was vigorously taken up in 

 1882 by the Bureau of Ethnology, and systematic excavations 

 carried on in the field for eight successive years under the 

 direction of Doctor Cyrus Thomas, aided by Doctor Palmer, 

 Norris, Ragan, Reynolds, Middleton, and others. These re- 

 searches were not confined to mounds, but it was found nec- 

 essary to include in them all antiquities of the central region. 



